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NOTICE: As of Mid 2020, this article contains some out-of-date information. Please update it with more current details if you have them.

Appliance Installers

The preferred and easiest way to create a working Rivendell system is to use one of the standard "appliance" installers provided by Paravel Systems. The following Linux distributions are supported:

• Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish" (also works with Linux Mint 21) (PREFERRED)
  • Ubuntu 22.04 Appliance Installer for Rivendell 4.x

• Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 (RHEL-7) (also works with CentOS 7)
  • RHEL-7 Appliance Installer for Rivendell 4.x
  • RHEL-7 Appliance Installer for Rivendell 3.x (DEPRECATED)

• RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 (RHEL-8) (also works with Rocky Linux 8)
  • RHEL-8 Appliance Installer for Rivendell 4.x

Building from Source

The "appliance" installations listed above can also be used as a basis for creating a development instance capable of building Rivendell from its original sources. While not recommended for use in production "on the air" environments, such a development instance is extremely useful for for testing new features or bugfixes that have been committed to the GitHub repository but not yet released in the pre-built packages.

• Building a Rivendell Development Instance on Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish"

Ubuntu

Unbuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) and Linux Mint 19.3

This page covers how to compile from source and install Rivendell 3 (v3.6.1) on Ubuntu 18.04. It has been reported these instructions also work on Linux Mint 19.3.

Ubuntu Xenial (16.04)

Rivendell can be compiled / installed onto a Ubuntu machine. The instructions to do so can be found here.

Debian

The following pages describe how to install Rivendell from source on a Debian system.

Debian 10 (Buster)

This page quickly relates how to install Rivendell 3 (v3.2.0) on Debian10.

Debian 9 (Stretch)

This page quickly relates how to install Rivendell 3 (v3.0.3) on Debian9.

Debian 8 (Jessie)

Rivendell can be compiled / installed onto a Debian 8 (Jessie) machine. Just follow these instructions.

Downloading Rivendell Source from GitHub

Visit the Github repository to clone or download the Rivendell source code. You can also visit the releases page to download an archive of the stable source code.

Compiling Rivendell from Source

See Compiling Rivendell from Source

Old outdated things

All information below is out of date and needs to be updated (22nd Feb 2018)

Debian

Rivendell on Debian 6 (Squeeze). This is intended as a beginners guide that will walk you through getting Rivendell, JACK and Pulse Audio working with Debian 6. It is screen shot and explanation heavy.

Debian packages are available from the repository at debian.tryphon.org. Detailed instructions to Install under Debian.

Ubuntu

Ubuntu packages are available from the repository at debian.tryphon.org. Detailed instructions are available here.

The easiest way to install Rivendell using Ubuntu is to use the RRAbuntu Live CD installer. You can also test it out without installing the software.

A complete guide for installing Rivendell on Ubuntu 11.04 can be found here.

Other Linux Distributions

You can install Rivendell by compiling from source for other linux distros. Source code is available with instructions in a tarball or zip file on the main Rivendell website in the download section.

Duplicating an installed machine for rollout

See Duplicating an installed machine for rollout (.deb/dpkg based distros like Ubuntu, Debian, Linux Mint)